Concord Repatriation General Hospital

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Liverpool Hospital

Concord Repatriation General Hospital is a

Supervisor of advanced training: Mr Jamie Keck

General Surgery 1 (GS1)

GS1 is the specialist colorectal unit at St Vincent's. It manages the entire spectrum of colorectal disease with strong emphasis on difficult and re-operative pelvic surgery for malignancy, surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease, laparoscopic colorectal surgery, and disorders of function of the pelvic floor and anorectum.
There is one dedicated surgical colonoscopy list per week and the unit also runs an anorectal ultrasound and physiology lab.

Head of unit: Mr Rod Woods

Consultants: Mr Jamie Keck, Mr Michael Johnston and Mr Alexander Heriot

Junior staff: Fellow, registrar, 2 interns

Department of Surgery (DOS)

The DOS unit provides the specialist breast and endocrine surgery service. The department of surgery also manages the full range of general surgical conditions with close liason with the subspecialty units as appropriate. Registrars will be exposed to the range of surgical options for breast cancer with sentinel node biopsy and subcutaneous mastectomy with immediate reconstruction well established techniques at St Vincent's. A surgical oncology clinic also manages soft tissue sarcomas and melanomas on the DOS unit.
On the endocrine side thyroid surgery provides the bulk of the workload but the unit also manages parathyroid, adrenal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours.

Head of unit: Mr Michael Henderson

Consultants: Mr Paul Kitchen, Mr Patrick Hayes, Miss Sue Moore, Mr Stephen Farrell, Miss Jane Harding

Junior staff: Fellow or registrar, 2 interns

General Surgery 3 (GS3)

GS3 is the specialist hepatopancreaticobiliary and upper gastrointestinal unit at St Vincent's. It manages the spectrum of malignancies involving the oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver and biliary tree. There is also an emphasis on advanced laparoscopic techniques to manage benign disorders particularly of the stomach and oesophagus such as hiatus hernia, reflux and achalasia.

Head of unit: Associate Professor Dominic Vellar

Consultants: Mr Richard Cade, Mr Simon Banting, Mr Sean Mackay

Junior staff: Fellow, registrar, 2 interns

Cardiothoracic Surgery (CTS)

This unit provides both specialist cardiac and specialist thoracic surgical services. The general surgical trainee will be predominantly involved in thoracic surgery.

Head of unit: Mr Michael Yii

Consultants: Mr Ian Nixon, Mr Alex Rosalion, Mr James Kenny, Mr Gavin Wright, Mr Naveed Allem

Junior staff: 3 registrars (2 cardiothoracic trainees, 1 general trainee), 1 resident, 1 intern

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The Royal Royal Prince Alfred Hospital is a

Supervisor of advanced training: Associate Professor Michael Henderson

Breast and Melanoma

This unit provides specialist surgical care for breast and skin cancers. There is also collaboration with the sarcoma unit for management of soft tissue and retroperitoneal sarcomas.

Head of unit: Associate Professor Henderson

Consultants: Mr David Speakman, Dr Catherine Poliness, Dr Stewart Hart

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 resident

GastroIntestinal

This unit provides specialist surgical care for all gastrointestinal malignancies.

Head of unit: Professor Robert Thomas

Consultants: Mr Bruce Mann, Associate Professor Jack Mackay, Mr Gavin Wright, Mr Frank Chen, Mr Malcolm Steel

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 resident

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Supervisor of advanced training: Mr David Butterfield

General Surgery 1 / Paediatric Surgery

The Surgery 1 Unit also encompasses paediatric surgery. The majority of the workload is a range of general surgery. Mr Tom Sweeney is an upper gastro-intestinal surgeon so ther is a wide exposure to the full range of upper GI surgery. Whipples and oesophageal resections are all performed on site. Liver resctions are probably the only upper GI / HPB operation referred to the Austin Hospital.
The paediatric surgery commitment involves a whole day list with Ms Wheatley every second week. During working hours the Surg 1 registrar is also on-call for acute paediatric surgical emergencies.

Head of unit: Mr Boon Hong

Consultants: (General) Mr Tom Sweeney, Mr Erik Koppert, (Paediatric) Ms Jeniffer Wheatley, Mr Alex Auldist, Mr Joe Cremeri, Ms Gwen Wilson

Junior staff: Registrar, 2 residents

General Surgery 2

The Professorial / Colorectal Unit

Head of unit: Professor Hamish Ewing

Consultants: Mr Andrew Bui, Ms Wanda Stelmach, Mr Devan Gya

Junior staff: Registrar, 2 residents

General Surgery 3

Endocrine / General

Head of unit: Mr Steve Manolas

Consultants: Mr Patrick Moore, Mr Ernest Lim

Junior staff: Registrar, 2 residents

General Surgery 4

Head of unit: Mr

Consultants: Mr Trevor McQuillan, Mr Strugnell

Junior staff: Registrar, 2 residents

Surgery 5 (Vascular/Thoracic)

The vascular unit shares a registrar and intern with the thoracic unit.

Head of unit: Mr

Consultants: (Vascular) Mr Tony Chan, Mr Neill Roberts, (Thoracic) Mr Seven Seevanayagam

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

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The Geelong Hospital is the largest outside of metropolitan Melbourne. Five registrars rotate from St Vincent's to Geelong.

Supervisor of advanced training: Professor David Watters

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Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

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Head of unit: Mr

Consultants:

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

Surgery 3

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Head of unit: Mr

Consultants:

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

Surgery 4

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Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

Vascular

This unit provides specialist vascular surgical services.

Head of unit: Mr David North

Consultants: Mr David McClure, Mr Damien Holdaway

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

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The Ballarat Base Hospital. Two registrars rotate to Ballarat from St Vincent's whilst a third rotates from the Royal Melbourne Hospital

Supervisor of advanced training: Mr Stephen Tobin

Colorectal

This unit provides specialist surgical care for breast and skin and soft tissue cancers.

Head of unit: Mr Stephen Tobin

Consultants: Mr Bruce Stewart

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

Upper GastroIntestinal

This unit provides specialist surgical care for breast and skin and soft tissue cancers.

Head of unit: Mr David Deutscher

Consultants: Mr Andrew Lowe, Mr Stuart Eaton

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

Vascular/Plastics

This unit provides specialist vascular surgical services. Open and edovascular surgery is performed as well as renal access surgery. The registrar is also involved with plastic surgery at Ballarat and will be exposed to a wide range of reconstructive surgery.

Head of unit: Mr Rob Ventura

Consultants: Mr Michael Condous, Mr Rob Sheen (plastics)

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 intern

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The Goulburn Valley Base Hospital in Shepparton is a busy general hospital

Supervisor of advanced training: Mr Tony Heinz

General Surgery

Three registrars share the workload of all general surgical patients in the hospital. They will also rotate through working with each of the consultants on a three week roster.

Head of unit: Mr Tony Heinz

Consultants: Mr Mark Eastman, Mr Roly Hunt, Mr David Dalton, Mr Vivek Singh

Junior staff: 3 registrars, 3 interns

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Warrnambool Hospital is

Supervisor of advanced training: Mr Stephen Fisher

Surgery 1

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Head of unit: Mr Stephen Fisher

Consultants: Mr Philip Gan

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 resident

Surgery 2

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Head of unit: Mr Murphy

Consultants: Mr Brendan Mooney

Junior staff: Registrar, 1 resident

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